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Amy Starin, Ph.D., LCSW

Amy Starin, Ph.D., LCSW is a clinical social worker with 32 years of experience in the field of children’s mental health. She has held leadership positions in community mental health, inpatient psychiatry, government, university research and teaching, and non-profit organizations. Her area of specialization within children’s mental health is the development of systems of care to support parents in caring for their children withina full spectrum of early intervention needs to serious mental health impairment.

Dr Starin joined the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation as Senior Program Officer for Mental Health in July of 2016. She maintains responsibility for the Foundation’s Mental Health and Unmet and Emerging Needs portfolios.